Naturally, this assumes that your computer isn't already under the control of the bad guys and that you take standard security procedures (keeping your OS and software up to date, use a different strong password at each site/service you're registered for, etc.).

They've also been going hard at major US banks and stock exchanges in recent weeks. The funny thing is, they probably think they can get away with it because we let china slide on a lot of their shiat. They may end up learning a hard lesson.

Wait, Google users are concerned about someone sifting through their emails?

They are targeting journalists and people involved with US international relations. It isnt random.

Oh. Then I'm probably okay: I can't imagine a foreign government taking my anarchist messiahship any more seriously than you Farkers do.

And this two-step password thing is troublesome and, as several Farkers have already noted, will do nothing to protect me from my worst enemy, the Lit-Up Three-Sided Bilderbergermeisters.

Besides which, the contents of my email (as opposed to advertising I keep forgetting to unsubcribe from) is amazingly quotidian, centering mainly around whether the weather's good enough for an extended dog walk, how hungover I am on any given day and which corporate lobbyist I have to blow to get anything greenlit around here. Dry as dust and just as dull.

Nope, China has already eaten our lunch and come back for dessert. Intrusions by China are no longer detectable. Go look up "Ghostnet".

This is mostly middle-east, like Iran & others.

From Wikipedia:

GhostNet (simplified Chinese: 幽灵网; traditional Chinese: 幽靈網; pinyin: YōuLíngWǎng) is the name given by researchers at the Information Warfare Monitor to a large-scale cyber spying[1][2] operation discovered in March 2009. The operation is likely associated with an Advanced Persistent Threat. Its command and control infrastructure is based mainly in the People's Republic of China and has infiltrated high-value political, economic and media locations[3] in 103 countries. Computer systems belonging to embassies, foreign ministries and other government offices, and the Dalai Lama's Tibetan exile centers in India, London and New York City were compromised. Although the activity is mostly based in China, there is no conclusive evidence that the Chinese government is involved in its operation.[4] (etc. etc. etc.)